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• Re: Won't Start - Advise needed
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:07:01 -0400
  Hi Jeff, I would suggest you disconnect a fuel line at the cold start injector and stick it into a gas can. Turn the...
• 83 idle prob persists
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 29 Mar 1997 18:43:48 -0500
  ...He said he checked the engine over and concluded that the fuel injectors must be at fault because the HCs were very high. This...
• Re: Hoses on fuel injectors
  Historical mailing list - Donald Baxter
  Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:25:15 -0500
  ...Hoses on fuel injectors Yeah, that occurred to me as I was doing this. It's not just the sparks, If you take the...
• Re: Hoses on fuel injectors
  Historical mailing list - Cooper, Jonathan R.
  Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:27:29 -0400
  ...It's not just the sparks, If you take the injectors out first you don't have that problem but the metal heats up...
• Re: Removing Stuck 1.6L Diesel Injector Heat Shields - Any Ideas?
  Historical mailing list - Joel Hembel
  Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:32:29 -0500
  Well I've removed them unintentionally by cranking over the engine with the injectors removed. They blasted out like missiles when I cranked it...
• Re: Engine hesitates upon take off
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:15:44 -1000
  ...the ecu fires all for injectors at once .. like one 4-part injector. So doesn't matter which connector is on which injector. which...
• Re: Why do I smell gas?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Copich
  Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:47:17 -0700
  ...Easy to check with ohm meter there shoul be no continuity between plug of injector and the body of the injector check for this...
• Re: Replacing Fuel Lines
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:48:07 -0400
  Blake, You can use a #11 X-acto knife to cut the old fuel injector hoses from under the metal collars and the collars...
• Re: Grey oily spots on rear hatch
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:17:12 -0800
  ...I don't just 'toss in rebuilt injectors' .. I've gotten bad new rebuilt Bosch injectors before. I would spray test them ...sometimes I...
• Fwd: Re: Ignition - 2.1L wasserboxer, 1991 Carat
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:29:18 -0500
  ...My Shoebox Electronic gizmo > shows the ECU fuel injector pulse proper - but tells me nothing about each > injector. The injectors were cleaned, serviced and...
• Re: No start hot
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:08:08 -0800
  you may have one or some leaky injector(s). When you turn off the engine the leaky injector(s) drip, drip, drip thus give...
• Re: '82 Westy Diesel Intro + Injector / Timing Belt / GeneralQuestions
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:15:22 -0700
  ...Leaking in the injector area is most likely due to a metal fuel line not tight enough or a leaking rubber return line. Big...
• 85"1.9L What happens when 1 or more injectors go bad?please help...
  Historical mailing list - Tracy Bonin
  Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:00:26 -0800
  ...rich ....and so on......almost all we have left are the injectors.... what do they do when they go bad.....I was thinking maybe...
• leaving fuel injector cleaner in the tank for nine months
  Historical mailing list - Florian Speier
  Mon, 2 Jan 2006 23:27:13 -0800
  hello list, i just poured a bottle of fuel injector cleaner in my full gastank only to find out ten minutes later that my...
• Fuel Injector hose clamp size?
  Historical mailing list - robertmstewart
  Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:17:30 -0400
  Does anyone know what the size of the Fuel Injector hose clamp is suppose to be? I went to AutoZone today, they had 3...
• FI short hose info and injector info
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:59:13 -0400
  ...a friend of mine had his 78 bus injectors gone through and his was about 65.00. now this is for a set of...
• Re: HELP: stuck in Cape May FIXED!
  Historical mailing list - Bryan Feddish
  Thu, 4 Jul 2013 10:23:58 -0400
  ...Odd that the injector I took out appears to have the hose permanently on on it. Not sure how to replace it. I put...
• Injector Ordeal-OVER!!!!
  Historical mailing list - Vdub Guy
  Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:27:22 +0000
  ...I had been thinking over the past couple of days what had I done to the van prior to pulling the injectors? OK, I...
• Engine Gas Lines/injectors Done, Still Stuttering!
  Historical mailing list - mad madeline
  Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:27:48 -0700
  ...Followed an older lead by someone who rigged a set-up to clean the injectors by hooking up a scrapped connector from a junk...
• 2.1 WBX Warm Start Troubles
  Historical mailing list - Michael Magnani
  Tue, 1 Nov 2016 20:32:51 +0000
  ...test was unsatisfactory until I clamped off the fuel injector hoses.The new fuel injectors behave the same. I'm looking for guidance.Thanks...
• Re: Gas Mileage Improvements?
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:36:33 -0700
  ...Disconnecting the O2 sensor made all the injectors do essentially the same thing. So I got smoother running but hogged gas real bad. Replaced...
• Re: Diesel question, reply
  Historical mailing list - Michael Modl
  Sat, 27 Jun 1998 02:10:49 EDT
  ...The Vanagon is back in the shop today to have a new cold start cable installed which was ordered when the rebuilt injector pump...
• Re: Baffled
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:09:40 -0800
  ...Also, I keep a > known good injector > around to swap in. 20+ year old injectors do > fail/get leaky/etc. > > Jon > 0 __________________________________________________ Do You...
• Re: Removal fo FI injectors
  Historical mailing list - Mark Mages
  Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:10:42 -0800
  ...site is partially up, there is a complete section > on the injectors and > intake system, removal & maintenance. > > Here it is: > http://www3.sympatico.ca...
• Re: Running Rich - O2 sensor reading low?
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:59:52 -0800
  ...LOL and this a cylinder with a queefed > out injector would just be pumping air your killing with the queef saying. hehe my main...
• Re: A bit rough idle, running. Unbalanced injectors?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:05:41 -0700
  ...A worn injector or two with a poor spray pattern is somewhat likely, but of hundreds of VW injectors that pass through my shop...
• Re: Dead cylinder....$0.25 fix!
  Historical mailing list - Tom Naylor II
  Fri, 31 May 2002 11:23:27 -0700
  [SNIP] ....But while I had it out, I decided to replace my one year old injector seal for the heck of it. Reassembled, fired...
• Re: Fireworks for the Fourth�in my engine bay
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 2 Jul 2011 18:50:04 -0400
  ...A stethoscope (or presumably a screwdriver) will let you hear the click of the injectors firing. The plumbing is on 24.46. The only...
• Re: Replacing Fuel Hose
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Thu, 5 Apr 2007 09:53:20 -0700
  ...Just make sure you take your time > > and don't damage body of injector. It's not a difficult job. > -- Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air...
• Re: Intermittent running problem.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Tue, 26 Apr 2016 08:00:19 -0400
  ...I would test for this by pulling each pair of injectors out of the intake without disconnecting the hoses or wires and using a...
• Re: Injector Ordeal-OVER!!!!
  Historical mailing list - ****************************
  Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:39:23 -0600
  ...I had been thinking over the past couple of days what had I done to the van prior to pulling the injectors? OK, I...
• Re: Joel's bosch stuff
  Historical mailing list - Joachim Beek
  Mon, 15 Aug 94 10:07:20 CDT
  >There was a recall on VW's fuel injector seals. Do you think these part >numbers reflect the new upgraded part? I think we...
• [Fwd: Ignition System Question]
  Historical mailing list - Randolph Feuerriegel
  Fri, 9 Oct 1998 22:28:44 -0700
  ...How did you make out with the injectors? I'm having the same problem except that I can't get the rpm to drop...
• Re: injector resistance
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sun, 1 Jul 2001 19:56:39 -0500
  Bradley Flubacher wrote: > I measured the resistance on my injectors and it turned up high (17-18 ohms > ea.) > > What is this inidicative of...
• Can't start the engine...
  Historical mailing list - zolo
  Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:36:39 -0700
  ...Something to do with the activation of the fuel pump and the injectors. Should I rather ask others? Or is there any of you...
• Re: Won't Start - Advise needed
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:55:00 EDT
  ...would suggest you disconnect a fuel line at the cold start injector and stick it into a gas can. . . . On 18-Jun-05, at...
• Re: BenT VW items
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:24:46 -0600
  Dan Am looking into this for a Friend in SantaFe for whom I just finished an install of the GoWesty EFI + New Injectors so...
• Re: Diesel Vanagon
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 4 Apr 1994 19:08:00 -0400
  ...I would try putting a new injector heat shield, maybe ?? sps
• Re: Installing Little Injector Hoses
  Historical mailing list - John Jensen
  Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:25:05 -0400
  ...I decided to put clamps on every injector and leave the cups off. It seemed to me that the "barb" like structure of the...
• Re: Intermittent miss on one cylinder
  Historical mailing list - Hans Brouwer
  Tue, 31 Dec 2002 22:00:19 -0500
  Could be an injector wiring problem. Check the continuity of the injector plug wire. This is what I did and solved a similar problem...
• Re: A bit rough idle, running. Unbalanced injectors?
  Historical mailing list - pdooley
  Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:46:20 -0400
  Martin, Unbalanced injectors seem to be a big problem on older CIS systems, not so much with EFI injectors. (at least in my experiences...
• Re: BenT VW items
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Wed, 12 Jun 2019 07:13:05 -0700
  hi Jamie, for injectors https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2209878 for 1.25 rocker arms https://www.thesamba.com/vw...
• Re: Losing Power
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 5 Jul 1997 13:10:06 PST
  ...Remove one bank of injectors and point them into a glass jar. Plug one injector in and crank the engine. You should get a...
• Re: Fuel injectors needed
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:48:10 -0400
  ...16:14 Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM> napisał(a): > dear injectors > fuel type diesel ... gasoline... year ... engine size if it matters > > and simply out...
• Re: Techron vs. other brand(s) injector cleaner - '91 Vanagon GL
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:21:31 -0500
  ...other brand(s) injector cleaner - '91 Vanagon GL Ok, so I've gathered that a bottle of "Techron" in the tank before filling up...
• ETKA needed for 82' 1.6 diesel NA <Injector Pump>
  Historical mailing list - Frank Lee
  Sat, 9 Jun 2012 18:15:54 -0400
  I'm chasing down an injector pump leak, and it might be a simple fix. Ralph gave me instructions. I need to see how...
• Re routing the Gas lines
  Historical mailing list - mad madeline
  Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:17:54 -0700
  Replacing the set of gas lines that run from the fuel tank into the injectors, and the return set, makes me wonder why not...
• Re: Injector cleaning results
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:47:29 -0700
  ...He had the whole test > station, though, so i can't imagine it is much > different than 95% of the other injector cleaning > people...
• Re: Cleaned Injectors-Now No Start
  Historical mailing list - azsun99
  Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:50:00 -0700
  ...Cleaned Injectors-Now No Start > Well Merry Christmas to me! Here I was all excited, yesterday my cleaned injectors came back in the mail...
• Re: fuel lines
  Historical mailing list - Marla Stelk
  Mon, 6 Jan 2003 09:44:54 -0500
  ...Do these also develop leaks in the long run? I have heard that >what can be done on these injector lines is: is cut...
• EV Fuel Line Leak Warning......
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 7 Dec 1997 18:34:53 -0500
  ...CAREFULLY remove the clamp from the fuel injector pipe...the pipe and the associated fitting is made out of plastic....now remove the clamps...
• Re: Noid Light Recommendations
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:25:13 -0800
  the NOID light that fits 'bosch' fuel injector harnersses, also works on subaru's.. That's the one you want. it's just a...
• Re: [TDI-conversion] Re: [Audi-VW-Diesels] Breakthrough for TDI conversions!
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:47:35 -0700
  The TDI injectors are designed for a much higher pressure from the pump before they "break". If that break pressure is lowered by decreasing...
• Re: First Project: Fuel lines with a few glitches...
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:31:57 -0500
  Brian, if you have over 150K on the engine, it would probably help to send the injectors out for overhaul. There are a number...
• Re: Help! No ground to the fuel injectors???
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:10:23 -0800
  ...But no ground to the injectors - no pulse, no constant ground, nothing. I drove the car prior to pulling the engine, so I don...
• Re: Vanagon Syndrome Variant - update needed
  Historical mailing list - sam.cooks
  Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:25:36 -0400
  ...But either using the right gas or running a bottle of some injector cleaner through there has such a consistent and immediate impact that...
• Grey oily spots on rear hatch
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:48:02 -0600
  ...Was thinking having my friends preferred diesel shop do injectors and go through the pump too maybe raise the psi too?? Hoping for better...
• Re: gas in the oil
  Historical mailing list - Benny boy
  Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:14:11 -0500
  ...one or more FI injectors is leaking overnight into the combustion chamber, a classic problem! have a GOOD mechanic do a fuel pressure test...
• fuel injector hoses, replacing
  Historical mailing list - mordo
  Sun, 9 Dec 2007 10:43:44 -0500
  > > I found that when you do this job that you need to go back and re-tighten > the fuel injector hose clamps once or...
• Re: Looking for a good fuel injector rail- East Coast preffered
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
  Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:00:55 -0400
  ...I am not sure if my mechanic over tightened the > clamp down when he put the injectors on the rail or what but I...